The computing industry is experiencing increasing demand for storage performance, including greater bandwidth
and IOPs along with reduced latency due to demands for increased application performance and continual data
growth. Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) carry the bulk of storage traffic in the enterprise data
center and are being continually improved to meet these increased demands.

As they implement flash storage, enterprises may find themselves constrained by the available bandwidth
between the servers and storage, or foresee a constraint as they observe their growing data consumption
patterns. The Emulex LPe16002 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) host bus adapter (HBA) addresses these increasing
demands on storage performance by providing double the bandwidth of previous generation Fibre Channel HBAs.